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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] powerdevil-remove-cpufreq.patch
From:       Martin Sandsmark <sandsmark () samfundet ! no>
Date:       2010-03-08 16:11:49
Message-ID: 201003081711.49818.sandsmark () samfundet ! no
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On Monday 8. March 2010 12.17.13 Holger Macht wrote:
> I don't think they are idiots at all. Did you read the links I posted?
> Would you expect everybody reading such texts before configuring there
> power management needs? Having the CPU frequency options in the
> powerdevil GUI leads to people think "wow, I'm saving power when setting
> the governor to powersave when on battery power". But this is plain
> wrong. They won't read the documentation, they're just clicking and
> think they are happy but actually are draining more power than before.

I think you misunderstand Nikos' point.

There are several valid use-cases for manually setting the CPU frequency 
governor, and by removing the discoverability of this function, we lessen the 
users experience.

-- 
Martin T. Sandsmark
 
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